BANGOR – Women With Wings, a women’s singing circle, will present its autumn concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Bangor, 120 Park St. Admission will be by donation at the door.

The concert will be dedicated to Kay Gardner, who along with Colleen Fitzgerald, co-founded the group in 1993. Gardner died Aug. 28 of this year.

The concert will feature songs from the group’s newly released CD, and familiar favorites. At previous concerts, audiences have enjoyed joining the group in singing chants and rounds.

Women With Wings’ first CD, “Hand in Hand and Heart to Heart,” contains 20 songs and chants created by women who have sung in circle together. Ladyslipper Music distributes the CD and it will be available for sale at the concert.

Women With Wings has nearly finished creating a songbook, which includes lyrics and music for the songs on the CD, as well as many other songs.

Women With Wings has met every week since its inception to sing songs of healing, affirmation and empowerment written by “Wingers” and others. In addition to two yearly concerts in Bangor, the group has sung at Common Ground Fair, at the University of Maine’s Beautiful Project, the Maine Festival, and in nursing homes and hospitals.

Most recently, Women With Wings sang with breast cancer survivors and their loved ones as the honorary race chairwoman of the Maine Chapter of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

In August of 1995, Women With Wings singing circle workshop was presented at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, an international gathering of 5,000 women. The workshop has become an annual weeklong intensive at the Michigan festival. Through such workshops, the chants, rounds and songs created by Women With Wings members have spread throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, and similar singing circles have been founded.

Women With Wings meets 7-9 p.m. each Thursday evening in the vestry of the Unitarian-Universalist Church. Women routinely travel from Knox, Waldo, Washington and Hancock counties, as well as the local area.

There are no auditions and it is not necessary to have a musical background or to read music in order to attend. All women are welcome to sing with the circle in a regular or irregular basis.

On the first and third Thursdays each month, daughters, nieces, granddaughters and friends under age 8 are welcome the first hour of the gathering.

For information about the concert, the Thursday singing circle or the CD, call 589-4344.